Charles Hirschman
Professor of Public Affairs
Boeing International Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 1972
Contact Information:
Condon Hall, Room 328
charles@u.washington.edu
206.543.5035
Areas of Specialization:
Demography and Ecology, Immigration and Ethnicity, Fertility and Family, Social Stratification and Mobility, Southeast Asia
Charles Hirschman joined the Evans School faculty in 2002. Hirschman serves a dual appointment in the University of Washington's Department of Sociology, where he has been on the faculty since 1987, most currently serving in the role of the department's Boeing International Professor.
Hirschman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on demography, immigration and ethnicity, and Southeast Asia; and he conducts research on immigration and ethnicity in the United States and on social change in Southeast Asia. He also directs the University of Washington-Beyond High School project, a longitudinal study of educational attainment and the early life course of young adults.
He previously held faculty positions at Duke University from 1972-81, and at Cornell University from 1981-87.
He is the author of Ethnic and Social Stratification in Peninsular Malaysia (1975), and is the co-editor of Southeast Asian Studies in the Balance: Reflections from America (1992) and The Handbook of International Migration (1999). He has also written more than one hundred journal articles and book chapters.
Hirschman was elected president of the Population Association of America in 2005, and is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has also served as the chairman of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences from 2004-05.
He has been a visiting fellow at: the University of Malaya in 1984, the Australian National University in 1985, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences from 1993-94, the Russell Sage Foundation from 1998-99, and the Population Reference Bureau from 2005-06. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural village in Malaysia from 1965 to 1967.
Hirschman holds a Ph.D. and MA in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a BA in sociology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Curriculum Vitae (55KB PDF)
Publications & Links
- Charles Hirschman's University of Washington Faculty Page (selected publications are available here)
- UW Department of Sociology
- UW Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
- UW Southeast Asia Program
- Additional Sociology Links